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Comparing January 1997 with January 1996, increases were recorded in the value of domestic exports to the Netherlands (+14%), France (+13%) and the United Kingdom (-1.5%).
However, decreases were recorded in the value of domestic exports to Singapore (-31%), Taiwan (-25%), Canada (-17%), the United States (-14%), Germany (-7.7%), Japan (-6.8%) and China (-4.0%).
Comparing the three months ending January 1997 with the three months ending January 1996, the value of domestic exports to France and China increased by 2.0% and 0.7% respectively.
However, decreases were recorded in the value of domestic exports to Singapore (-27%), Taiwan (-20%), Canada (-14%), Japan (-9.8%), the United States (- 9.3%), Germany (-8.4%), the United Kingdom (-6.2%) and the Netherlands (-2.9%).
Table 4 shows changes in the value of domestic exports of ten principal commodity divisions.
Comparing the three months ending January 1997 with the three months ending January 1996, the value of domestic exports of most principal commodity divisions decreased. More notable decreases were registered for electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof (by $1.3 billion or 15%); photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies, optical goods, watches and clocks (by $813 million or 18%); office machines and automatic data processing machines (by $619 million or 16%); miscellaneous manufactured articles consisting mainly of printed matter (by $457 million or 9.7%); and clothing (by $436 million or 2.3%).
Over the same period, increases in the value of domestic exports were recorded for professional, scientific and controlling instruments and apparatus (by $287 million or 39%); and tobacco and tobacco manufactures (by $32 million or 5.7%).
Changes in the value of imports from ten main suppliers are shown in Table 5.
Comparing January 1997 with January 1996, increases were recorded in the value of imports from France (+21%), the United Kingdom (+15%), Germany (+6.8%), China (+6.3%), the United States (+3.4%) and Malaysia (+1.6%).
However, decreases were recorded in the value of imports from Taiwan (-12%), Japan (-4.1%), South Korea (-3.5%) and Singapore (-1.5%).
Comparing the three months ending January 1997 with the three months ending January 1996, increases were recorded in the value of imports from Germany (+15%), Malaysia (+14%), the United Kingdom (+13%), China (+5.4%), Singapore (+0.7%), South Korea (+0.6%), the United States (+0.5%) and Japan (+0.2%).